Archive | August, 2013

Here are the team and driver quotes following the F1 Belgian Grand Prix. Red Bull Sebastian Vettel, 1st “I don’t think we expected to be dominant here, and it surprised all of us actually; it’s a great result. I think we knew going into the race that our race pace, compared to Mercedes, maybe gave […]

The Belgium GP isn’t one to be associated with processional racing. However, when the leader of the race is the young, three time world champion – it doesn’t have much of say. Lewis Hamilton snatched pole position on Saturday from the grasp of Sebastian Vettel but that was as close to beating the German as […]

The notorious Spa weather had a definitive say in today’s qualifying sessions as Lewis Hamilton snatched pole position in the dying seconds of the session. The fickle weather dampened the 7 km long circuit enough to prompt the fitting of intermediate tyres all twenty-two cars. It was the opportunists who would cash into the difficult […]

Sebastian Vettel again topped the time sheets in the third practice session ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix. Fernando Alonso finished the session in second place, only a tenth off Vettel’s time. Jean-Eric Vergne put in a solid performance finishing the session in fourth place behind Mark Webber. The Sauber team would have been happy […]

Free Practice 2 for the Belgian Grand Prix was dominated by Red Bull with Sebastian Vettel setting the quickest time of the session followed very closely by his team mate, Mark Webber. Vettel set a P1 time of 1:49.331, just 0.059s ahead of Mark Webber in the other Red Bull, who set a time of […]

Suzuka will remain on the Formula 1 calendar until at least 2018 following the signing of a new contract with F1 Supremo Bernie Ecclestone. Ecccelstone met with Suzuka president Hiroshi Soda in London this week to agree to the terms of a new five-year deal which starts in 2014. This means that Honda, the Japanese […]

In a tricky and damp Free Practice 1 session in Belgium, Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso set the quickest time of the morning. The Belgian Grand Prix weekend got off to a rather wet start today. With the track dry in some areas and damp and slippery in other sections it proved to be a rather mixed […]

Infinity Red Bull Racing team principal, Christian Horner has revealed that they have not yet decided who will take the second drivers seat that is available next season after Mark Webber’s departure at the end of the season. Horner, speaking to AUTOSPORT, said “Nothing is fixed yet. We said we would take the summer to […]